Applications or communications, Post Office rule for making, 319-20 Arnold, ----, promoted by merit, 280-81 Association of Municipal Corporations controls Parliament more than capital, 392 Australia, Offensive officials forced out of office in, 228; promotion in, 289 Auxiliary staff, Grievance of the, 155 Badcock, J. C., before Tweedmouth Committee, 167-68, 296; on redundant first class newspaper sorters in Post Office, 258-59; on squeezing through, 280; on promotion, 290; on Roberts case, 309; on Worth case, 312; on the malingerers' grievance, 357-58 Balcarres, Lord D. L., on election pledges, 9; on specific pledges, 242 Balfour, A. J., Anxiety of, for the public service, 199-200 Bartley, Sir G. C. T., intervened for one Canless dismissed as unfit, 313 Baxter, W. E., on a six-hour day, 324-25; on travelling expenses of county court judges, 354; on pressure brought by Members of Parliament on Financial Secretary, 374-77 Bayley, Thomas, asks for a Select Committee, 198; motion lost, 201; second motion of, 205; on rights of the House, 211 Beaufort, ----, postmaster at Manchester, Error of, in granting hours of work, 328 Belgian State Telegraphs run at a loss, 22; Rate Table, 23n Belgium, Percentage of personal and social messages in, 18; number of offices in, 19; figuring cost in, 20; experience of, 21-24, 28; Telegraph introduced in, by British company, 38; Government of, appropriates the new industry, 38; statistics, 42; increased use in, 51; telegrams to inhabitants, 53 Betting on horse races subsidized, 124-26 Birmingham, Extension of service in, 77-78 Blackmail and blood-sucking methods employed, 232, 233, 383 Blackwood, Sir S. A., recommends new newspaper tariff, 120-21; answers questions on increase of salaries under Fawcett, 136-37; on removal of inefficient employees, 250-51; advice from, refused by Mr. Raikes, 275; on trades union spirit among clerks, 302-3 Booth, Charles, member of Bradford Committee, 213, 214 Bortlewick, Sir A., on Parliamentary interposition, 144 Boulden, Alfred, presented telegraphists' grievances as to pensions, 356 Bowles, Gibson, on pressure on members, 203 Bradford, Sir Edward, Chairman of Bradford Committee, 213, 214 Bradford Committee, Report, 214-25, 359; question submitted to it, 214; ignores its reference, 214-15; reports its failure, 215; ignored rules of procedure, 216; declared comparison impossible, 216; reported widespread discontent, 218, 221; greater pressure of work, 219; statements unsupported by evidence, 219; recommended large increase of expenditure, 221; not acceptable to Post Office workers, 221; Lord Stanley on, 222-24; rejected by Balfour Government, 225; before the House, 233